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‘Batman v Superman’ Clobbers Box Office

Superhero team-up film grossed an estimated $424.1 million world-wide

‘Batman v Superman,’ which opened this weekend, sets up characters and story lines that will extend into nine coming DC Comics-based movies over the next five years. Photo: Clay Enos/Warner Bros. Pictures/Associated Press

In the battle of Batman and Superman, the winner appears to be Warner Bros.

Ending a prolonged box-office slump for the Time Warner Inc.-owned studio and launching a lineup of movies based on DC Comics characters, “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” enjoyed the fourth-biggest global opening in box-office history.

The superhero team-up film grossed an estimated $424.1 million world-wide; $170.1 million of that came from the...